With privilege comes responsibility.

That's what every Vestry member soon finds out. And this is exemplified in the ways Vestries are charged with tending to parish finances. What do we need to know about budgets? Human resources? Taxes? All of these are touched upon in this course. Here are the titles of this course's four video presentations brought to us be The Rev. Kirk Berlenbach:

Financial Roles and Responsibilities
Budgeting
Budgeting and Responsibility
Taxes and Human Resources

This course is ideal for anyone who is on a Vestry or anyone interested in how churches handle their finances. A good companion is The Vestry Resource Guide available here from Forward Movement.

Here's a video preview:

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